Vintage Cake Design: Sculpting & Stenciling

Make a striking birdcage cake as you create antique textures, details and colors with Lindy Smith's carving, stenciling and hand-painting techniques.

Skill Level

Intermediate

What You Get

8 Streaming HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access

Class materials, including recipes

Hours of close-up instruction

Answers to student questions from instructor, Lindy Smith

Closed captioning available (web only)

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Class Overview

Create an heirloom-inspired cake with guidance from international cake decorating sensation Lindy Smith. You'll make elegant cake boards, carve precise hexagonal cakes and a rounded cake dome, and cover it all seamlessly in fondant. Then, learn accessible techniques for painting an easy, exquisite background onto your cake, and using stencils and royal icing to make borders of detailed "bronze" motifs. Lindy will also teach you to create perfect lines of fondant for the structure and bars of your bird cage without piping. Plus, you'll hand-paint the birdcage structure for an alluring antique effect, and top it all off with a singing bird and a cake topper made from pastillage.

Taught by

Lindy Smith

Instructor

A prolific and high-profile cake artist in the U.K., Lindy Smith has been working in the sugarcraft industry for over 20 years. She teaches classes all over the world, has written 12 incredibly popular books, including her most recent, The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. Lindy's passion and talent for teaching are evident in her enthralling, easy-to-follow classes.